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☆ Attendees at Kansas G.O.P. Event Punch and Kick Mannequin Wearing a Biden Mask
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Anjali Huynh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kansas Republicans are coming under fire for holding a fund-raiser on Friday evening at which attendees physically assaulted an effigy resembling President Biden, according to video footage shared on social media over the weekend. A video of the event shows attendees hitting and kicking what appears to be a body opponent bag — a lifelike mannequin with a head and torso often used for self-defense training — with a mask resembling Mr. Biden’s face. The mannequin was dressed in a T-shirt that said “Let’s Go Brandon,” a phrase understood to be code for swearing at Mr. Biden. Attendees also appeared to hit karate breaking boards that had the same derogatory phrase. That footage, originally posted on the online video platform Rumble, according to The Star, has been taken down, but clips have been shared by accounts like “Republicans against Trump” on X.

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☆ Biden Keeps Talking About the Old Days. Young Voters Don’t Like It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Catherine Lucey | Ken Thomas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Biden’s campaign adopted the internet meme ‘Dark Brandon’—a depiction of Biden’s red-laser-eyed alter ego—to reframe the Republican anti-Biden chant of ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’ Photo: mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesPresident Biden is struggling to connect with younger voters. The sepia-toned stories he peppers into speeches may not be helping. When Biden traveled to Israel last month, he spoke about his 1973 meeting with then Prime Minister Golda Meir . Following the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade last year, he stressed his work in 1987 to keep conservative Judge Robert Bork off the nation’s high court. Pressed about climate change during a news conference in Vietnam, he pointed to his longstanding commitment to the issue, including his work on it with Sen. Dick Lugar (R., Ind.)

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☆ Trump’s indictments – and mug shot – are deepening his supporters’ anger and revving up their support
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“And I love it because he has every right to be,” the South Dakota Republican said. “Everyone makes mistakes.”Like many other Trump supporters interviewed, Scott Akers of Alabama immediately pointed to Hunter Biden when asked about Trump’s mounting legal peril. ‘This country’s a powder keg’Intertwined with their outrage over the indictments, some Trump supporters are raising the specter of heightened political violence if Trump were to be convicted. Trump supporter Amanda Hamak-Leon and her boyfriend are seen at his Rapid City, South Dakota, rally on September 8, 2023. A vendor sells T-shirts featuring Trump's mug shot outside his Rapid City, South Dakota, rally on September 8, 2023.

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☆ Biden Struggles to Make ‘Bidenomics’ a Plus, Not a Minus
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | More About Reid J. Epstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When a chant slamming President Biden spread from a NASCAR race to T-shirts and bumper stickers across red America two years ago, the White House pulled off perhaps its savviest messaging feat to date. Biden aides and allies repackaged the “Let’s Go Brandon” insult and morphed it into “Dark Brandon,” a celebratory meme casting Mr. Biden as some sort of omnipotent mastermind. Now, the White House and the Biden campaign is several weeks into another appropriation play — but it isn’t going nearly as well. Aides in July announced that the president would run for re-election on the virtues of “Bidenomics,” proudly reclaiming the right’s derisive term for Mr. Biden’s economic policies. Wages are up, inflation has slowed, but credit to the president remains in short supply.

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☆ Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

Three academics who reviewed the cases say they add to growing evidence that America is grappling with the biggest and most sustained increase in political violence since the 1970s. Political violence surged for nearly a decade starting in the late-1960s – 1970 alone saw more than 450 cases, LaFree said. In contrast, much of today’s political violence is aimed at people – and most of the deadly outbursts tracked by Reuters have come from the right. “Political warfare”There’s no official tally of how many Americans die each year from political violence. Most of the fatal political violence identified by Reuters was carried out by people who embraced far-right views.

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☆ Opinion | Trump Is Back, to Tear Our Families Apart Once More
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Will Leitch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Maybe you even mended some fences with the people who, no matter how much you may disagree with them, you love. But the recent CNN town hall with Mr. Trump was a reminder of storm clouds on the horizon — and these clouds look very familiar. A majority of Americans do not want to see another matchup between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump. And what if Ron DeSantis gets the Republican nomination over Mr. Trump? Though considering how bruising any nomination battle that Mr. Trump loses would be — if such a battle ends at all — I suspect it won’t leave the country in a healing mood, either.

☆ Michigan Students Sue School District Over ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lauren Mccarthy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A mother of two students in Howard City, Mich., filed a lawsuit claiming the public school district violated her sons’ First Amendment rights by asking them to remove sweatshirts with the slogan “Let’s go Brandon” on them. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday against the Michigan Tri County Area Schools district, an assistant principal and a teacher, claims that their school censored her sons’ “peaceful, non-disruptive politics” by having them take off the sweatshirts, causing them “to suffer irreparable injury.”The phrase “Let’s go Brandon,” born of a viral NASCAR race moment in October 2021, is understood to be code for swearing at President Biden, the lawsuit confirms.The slogan conveys the same opposition as saying a four-letter expletive and then “Joe Biden,” just “sanitized to express the sentiment without using profanity or vulgarity,” the suit said. In February of 2022, the mother’s sixth-grade son wore a “Let’s go Brandon” sweatshirt to Tri County Middle School. The assistant principal at the school stopped him in the hallway and asked him to take it off, according to the lawsuit, telling him the slogan was equivalent to “the F-word.” He took it off because he feared getting in trouble.

☆ Fact Check-Fabricated Lauren Boebert quote compares Trump and Biden administration unemployment rates
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The supposed quote reads: “Under President Trump, 89% of Americans had jobs. Under Joe Biden, the unemployment rate is a staggering 3.4%.”Examples of the quote shared online can be found (here), (here), (here) and (here). A Google advanced search did not reveal any news outlet reporting on the supposed quote (archive.ph/wip/C0vNv). Under the Trump administration, the unemployment rate was recorded as 3.5% in February 2020, a half-century low, before rising to 14.8% in April 2020. Reuters found no evidence of any such quote made by Boebert that compared unemployment rates between the Trump and Biden administrations.

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